Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
Author
Preacher
Theologian
Writer
Buffalo
New York
H. E. Fosdick
Freeze
Cynicism
Sets
Release
Free
Faith
Fear
Life
Releases
More quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
